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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was on the older side.  My mother purposefully delayed my entry to school because she had been on the younger side and hated it.

I hated it.  No, it did not give me leadership skills.  Yes, I physically matured before the other girls and it was awful.  I did not like always being the oldest and found school boring and was not given enough challenges and opportunities to fail and build resilience.  I would not purposefully do the same to my children, although they just missed the cutoff date so I don't really have a choice.[/quote]

+1. And I grew up with a school with anend of December cut off. So I was 6 and a little over a month old when I started with k classmates who didn’t turn 5 until the last day of December. Hated it.

I was a leader, but I don’t think that is a result of my age, but my personality. When I got my period in 5th grade, there weren’t even sanitary product disposals in the restrooms. Kids mercilessly snapped my bras. I was talk because I was older but stopped growing at 12, so I was gangly and awkward for a long time before others shot up.

I was completely over high school midway through and was climbing the walls waiting for it to be over. I was generally compliant kid, but...I sought out older friends that I made at work, particularly when I was 18, which I turned before even entering senior year, and was running around with 20 year olds which was not a genius idea looking back.[/quote]

So you were born in July-August and redshirted with a Dec 31st cutoff. That is 5+ months before the cutoff. That is the equivalent of redshirting an April birthday with a Sept.1st cut off, right? In my DD’s case (born a few days before the cutoff) she will have plenty of friends only a month or two younger than her and probably other redshirted kids. April’a Birthdays are almost middle of the pack... hardly the youngest[/quote]

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